Amy's Vegan Organic Rice Mac & Cheese; frozen; 8 oz. (227 g) individually packaged…
Amys Kitchen Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 February 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm investigation detected trace amounts of milk through finished product testing.
The record
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- Product
- Amy's Vegan Organic Rice Mac & Cheese; frozen; 8 oz. (227 g) individually packaged serving; in trays with plastic overwrap, inside preprinted cardboard boxes; UPC 04227200432; Amy's Kitchen, Inc., P.O.Box 7129, Petaluma, CA 94955 8 or 12 retail units per case; Organic Gluten Free Dairy Free Rice Mac & Cheeze,12Pk, Item # 000043;Organic Gluten Free Dairy Free Rice Mac & Cheeze,8Pk, Item # 001241
- UPC
- 04227200432
- Reason for recall
- Firm investigation detected trace amounts of milk through finished product testing.
- Recalling firm
- Amys Kitchen Inc
- Firm location
- Petaluma, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0730-2022
- Quantity
- Item # 000043 = 13,970 cases/12-8 oz. packages per case; Item # 001241 = 1,656 cases / 8 -8 oz. packages per case
- Distribution
- Distributed in United States: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, LA, MA, ME, MN, NC, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI
- Initiated
- 19 January 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 16 February 2022
- Terminated
- 4 May 2022
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Item # 000043 = 12pk/case Item # 001241 = 8pk/case Lot # 60J0421 Best Before: 10/2023
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 19 January 2022 to termination on 4 May 2022. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The distribution pattern names 32 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Filed under cheese, milk and dairy and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other cheese recalls
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from Amys Kitchen Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 18 other records name this firm.
All 19 records for Amys Kitchen Inc
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